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Scientists Use AI to Prove People Can Be Talked Out of Conspiracy Theories
(www.extremetech.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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Another way of looking at it: "AI successfully used to manipulate people's opinions on certain topics." If it can persuade them to stop believing conspiracy theories, AI can also be used to make people believe conspiracy theories.
Anything can be used to make people believe them. That's not new or a challenge.
I'm genuinely surprised that removing such beliefs is feasible at all though.
If they're gullible enough to be suckered into it, they can similarly be suckered out of it - but clearly the effect would not be permanent.
That doesn’t follow with the “if you didnt reason your way into a believe you can’t reason your way out” line. Considering religious ferver I’m more inclined to believe this line than yours.
No one said at all that AI used "reason" to talk people out of a conspiracy theory. In fact I would assume it's incredibly unlikely since AI in general is not reasonable.
Why? It works as a corollary - there's no logic involved in any of the stages described.
I've always believed the adage that you can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into. It protects my peace.